E-Gen: Book Review

By

Larry Pearce

 

            How often are you interested in sitting down with a good book? If you’re like I am, next to factual genealogical accounts, you crave historical fiction where you can be both entertained and informed. While I am constantly trying to incorporate my reading and research into my E-Gen narratives, usually I can only mention sources in passing. So, as a new category of articles, I am including short book reviews, where I can go into some depth on a particular author’s work, whether fiction or non-fiction. My primary interest is more historical than literary, and I try to make as many connections as possible to our families and the events that were happening as they settling Western Pennsylvania. The reviews will eventually be cross-referenced on appropriate individual family pages.  If you have titles for me to consider, please write to me. Your comments on these books are always welcome. To read a review, simply click on the title below.

 

Author/Title/Publisher                           Period Covered/Subject                Families/Ethnic Origins

 

Sukle, R.S. Bucket of Blood:                (1927-28) Great coal miners’        Gray, Norris, Campbell,

The Ragman’s War. New York:           strike in West Deer Township,       and all Scotch-Irish in

iUniverse, Inc., 2004                            Allegheny County, PA                   Western PA